Ben speaks

Posted by spots (Singapore, Singapore) on 28 February 2009 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

I realise I have not really kept track of the number of words spilling forth from Ben's lips, like I did with Daniel. So, a few days ago, I made a list of all the words that Ben said on that day. Here it is, in the order he said them:

1. wake up
2. sleep/sleeping
3. bear bear [he was pointing to his bear that was face down on the chair, saying that his bear was sleeping.]
4. spiderman
5. ball
6. broken
7. fix [he was playing with a little plastic spiderman while i changed his diaper--it had gooey balls for hands & feet and it was broken.]
8. finish
9. brush teeth
10. go first
11. go play
12. wash hands
13. wet
14. dry
15. car/sports car [his current favourite is a white and silver Hot Wheels car!]
16. train
17. truck
18. spoon
19. screwdriver
20. rubbish truck
21. smelly
22. milk
23. no pushing
24. janmin [meaning Benjamin. I think my helper was recalling that he woke in the middle of the night and said, "No pushing janmin! No pushing!" Must have been a bad dream haha]
25. Thomas
26. cat/miao
27. dog/woof
28. duck/quack
29. happy
30. roadsweeper [Ben is obsessed with the roadsweeper truck that drives by every morning!]
31. noisy
32. spoon/bigger spoon
33. sound
34. sorry mummy
35. eat
36. ham
37. cheese
38. please
39. egg
40. dowan spank [haha, you can guess what happened here!]
41. crash
42. fall down
43. music please [he pronounces it mooo-sack!]
44. baby
45. fire
46. airplane
47. read please/read me please [meaning, read to me, please]
48. book
49. siren
50. tunnel
51. so dark
52. fan
53. marker
54. draw
55. rabbit
56. feed
57. mopsy/floppsy [the names of our rabbits]
58. bite me
59. dowan bite
60. scratch
61. pain pain
62. scared
63. go in
64. door
65. Daniel
66. ladybug
67. ant [we were reading a book about animals and he was pointing out the ones he knew.]
68. cow
69. horsey
70. potty
71. change
72. drink
73. water bottle
74. butterfly
75. no more
76. all done
77. bag
78. school
79. auntie annie [his teacher at school]
80. happy
81. pee pee
82. poop
83. help
84. rainbow
85. try
86. soup
87. i want [he loves soup. i was insisting he eat his noodles first. this is dinner time.]
88. more
89. banana
90. kiwi
91. apple
92. vegetable [he says 'wegde-tble']
93. stuck
94. gone
95. no more
96. cream
97. put cream
98. press
99. open
100. screaming [he heard someone screaming downstairs]
101. naughty boy
102. balloon
103. rain/raining
104. fish

Other words he says, but he didn't say them today:
105. up
106. down
107. video
108. watch
109. sit
110. stand up
111. bubbles
112. yes
113. no
114. sad
115. curious george [he says 'koo-rious gorhge']
116. doctor seuss
117. richard scarry
118. lowly
119. huckle
120 hi-5
121. mummy
122. daddy
123. grandma
124. grandpa
125. gong gong
126. po po
127. auntie sally
128. auntie julie [he says 'joo-yee']
129. hello
130. goodbye/byebye
131. rice
132. noodle
133. big
134. small
135. hot/too hot
136. drink
137. giraffee [he says 'jer-rough']
138. elephant [he says 'elle-fent']
139. duck
140. play dough
141. shoes
142. scooter
143. bird
144. sun
145. moon
... that's all i can remember for now